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Overview

The court system is corrupted and old-fashioned. People desire a new system that can satisfy the crowds. However, are the crowds always correct? The drama shows how judges discover the truth about people in court. It centers around a chief judge who doesn’t believe in justice, but only makes judgements that the crowds will be satisfied with. An assistant judge starts to question his motives and tries to find the truth.

  1. Moon Yoo-seok

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Ji Sung

    Kang Yo-han

  2. Cast 1

    Kim Min-jung

    Jung Sun-ah

  3. Cast 1

    Jinyoung

    Kim Ga-on

  4. Cast 1

    Park Gyu-young

    Yoon Soo-hyun

  5. Cast 1

    Jang Young-nam

    Cha Kyung-hee

  6. Cast 1

    Kim Jae-kyung

    Oh Jin-joo

  7. Cast 1

    Ahn Nae-sang

    Min Jeong-ho

  8. Cast 1

    Chun Young-min

    Han So-yoon

  9. Cast 1

    Jeon Chae-eun

    Kang Elijah

Last Season

Poster

Season 1

2021 | 16 episodes

In a near-future dystopia, an enigmatic judge punishes the haves by carrying out his vision of justice in trials live-broadcast and voted on by citizens.

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A watchable but imperfect series from South Korea. The Devil's Judge manages to make legal drama's interesting by injecting action, novelty and variety into its episodic storytelling. You are also presented with a overriding back story, that has, at its heart, the question of "is good and evil, what we perceive them to be?" I did say this series was not perfect and my core criticism relates to what would personally characterise, as an unwelcome thread, of misandry. Talk of, for example, castrating and flogging men as punishment, is, frankly, downright ugly. In summary, quite watchabl...

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeScripted

Original LanguageKorean 

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